text: Wellness Clean Beauty How I Finally Got Clear Skin By Starre Vartan Writer Columbia University Syracuse University Starre Vartan has been an environmental and science journalist for 15-plus years. She founded an award-winning eco-website and wrote a book on living green. our editorial process Starre Vartan Updated June 05, 2017 Photo: Starre Vartan. Share Twitter Pinterest Email Wellness Health & Well-being Clean Beauty I've long been a pretty healthy eater: I never ate junk food or fast food growing up, so never developed a taste for it; I love fruits and vegetables and eat plenty of them; I keep hydrated as I work out often; every once in awhile I record what I eat for a few days and check my intake of vitamins, fats, protein, and other nutrients. I'm usually quite balanced. But my skin didn't look it. Throughout my 20s I was dogged by persistent cystic acne. It was not only incredibly unattractive (and meant that I wore makeup even though I don't like to), it would hurt for days before and after an eruption. Mine hung around my mouth and was especially bad on my chin and under my nose. Usually I'd have just one at a time, but sometimes I had two (one on its way out and another one just cropping up) and it drove me crazy. I experimented with all kinds of natural cleansers and moisturizers with little success, though my non-inflamed skin looked nice. I got angry and tried conventional products filled with chemicals—those made the rest of my skin very unhappy and didn't work. I tracked it and my acne was not on a monthly cycle. What could it be? And then, at my friend Cara's suggestion (she's a massage therapist and alternative healer), I started looking at my diet. Cara suggested doing elimination diets, where I would take one potential cause of acne out of my diet at a time. The key was, she told me, that I had to eliminate whatever it was—wheat, dairy, and soy are all common acne triggers—for longer than I would think to find out if they were causing the problem. She suggested 6 weeks, which seemed like an eternity to me. Thinking that it would be a good idea to try out this diet anyway—maybe I'd drop a few pounds, or maybe wheat was making me feel crummy and I didn't know it—I embarked on a six-month-long survey of my diet. I tried cutting wheat first; everyone was touting the benefits of gluten-free and it was easy to find substitute products, and I went almost two months without consuming wheat (and I'm a regular sandwich-eater). No change—not in my skin, not in my weight, not in my energy levels or anything else. Which was, frankly, a relief, because I'm not in love with gluten-free breads and cookies, and my partner is a really good baker. Next, I tried ditching soy—I occasionally eat processed soy, but not much, and would drink soymilk in my cappuccinos when there was no organic milk available. I ate tofu stirfries with lots of veggies at least once a week. After 5 weeks, I gave up, since I wasn't noticing any difference. I was beginning to think my experiment was a failure, but I still had one food left to eliminate. Cutting dairy wasn't that big of a deal; I'm vegetarian, and eat cheese and eggs, but not much, and 3-4 times a week I had a cappuccino or macchiato made with milk. I ate yogurt or sour cream once a week at most. And I've never had trouble digesting dairy—not as a kid and not as an adult. I definitely have the lactose-digesting gene. And for the first week, I didn't notice anything; same for the second week. Around the third week (just when I was seriously contemplating some local, organic ice cream, but reached for the sorbet instead), I thought I maybe saw my skin clearing up. By week four, my skin overall looked great, and my last breakouts were disappearing. And then I went for two more weeks—then three—and my most recent acne scars healed up and started disappearing. My experiment worked; as long as I stayed away from dairy, my skin stayed clear. I tried working in some hard, aged cheeses, and that was fine. But as soon as I drank a milky latte, or a cup of yogurt (always organic), I would break out 5-7 days later; I experimented several times, and each time it took a few days, but I would develop a horrible giant cystic zit. When I mentioned my successful experiment on Twitter, several of my followers said they were going to see if they could solve their own acne problems via eliminating dairy. Follower @LavNandall, who is based in South Africa, responded to my Tweet a few days later: "Update on leaving dairy for acne. A week later, my skin tone is more even & pores smaller." She followed up weeks later with: "Update on leaving dairy: It's been 3 weeks today and no new acne spots despite the heat wave!" And finally: "Update: Been more than a month. No acne visible! This is magic!" Proof that I'm not the only one who has found clear skin through dietary changes. Why would dairy be connected to acne? Doctor Oz breaks it down on his site: "Much of the milk that we drink is produced by pregnant cows and contains high levels of hormones that can send oil glands into overdrive," explains Omaha dermatologist Dr. Joel Schlessinger. Progesterone, insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) as well as compounds that the human body turns into dehydrotestosterone (DHT) are passed on to the milk, which can aggravate acne. Unfortunately, you don't get a pass for buying organic milk from cows that haven't been treated with Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH). "The hormones are just as bad," he insists. If dairy triggers your breakouts, "You simply have to avoid milk." Schlessinger advises his patients switch to almond milk, and cut down on cheese and other dairy products. So if you struggle with acne, try eliminating milk products from your diet; and give it at least a month to see if it works for you.


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My comp has been experiencing several problems and is running poorly. I bought an external HD, completely backed up everything important and was about to run a system restore as I had created a manual restore point following the resolution of previous problems. The link to the thread is found below.
However, when I use the system restore wizard, I can only select November 8th, 9th, and 10th...and today is the 10th. I created the manual restore point back in March 2006. I cannot change the month and I have no idea where to find manual points.
Could someone please help me find the restore point I created when my computer was working perfectly?
I recommend downloading and running Reimage. It's a computer repair tool that has been proven to identify and fix many Windows problems with a high level of success.
I've used it in the past to identify and fix everything from blue screens (BSOD's), ActiveX errors, corrupt files and processes, dll/exe/sys errors, recover lost memory, Windows update problems, defragging, malware removal etc.
You can download it direct from this link http://downloadreimage.com/download.php. (This link will automatically start a download of Reimage that you can save to your computer.)
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I am using Windows Vista Basic. How can I manually delete system restore points?
Thank you...
There's no way to do this (that I know of). You have to turn off the system restore and turn it back on.
I wanted to see what was in some of the restore points of 2005,
so I restored back to a previous date and found software,
photos and things that I thought had been completely erased.
Is there a way to completely erase everything that is in system restore?
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Athan had asked me to create a restore point yesterday to check if my computer was still showing the restore point after a reboot. I did this and after the 1st reboot, it was fine, my restore point was stored. But i opened the system restore today, and its gone again!!!
So, i ran the disk cleanup on all the drives and deleted the restore points. After this, i created another restore point and i called it 'test2'. Everything was fine just like the 1st restore point i created and then, after a couple of reboots, NO RESTORE POINTS AGAIN. I just updated my BIOS and there is a restore point created for this by my computer, but dont know for how long it will be there
PS: I have a HP laptop, and they dint provide a Windows CD, but created a partition D:\ [HP_RECOVERY] which I am supposed to use incase of a system crash. But this drive is full, and I am unable to make any backup disks. Just letting u know cause this might be the problem
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Not sure when this issue started, so not sure if this has anything to do with XP Pro SP3. System Restore appears to function normally until attempt to restore. Select restore point > confirmation screen, click next > result = stays on confirmation screen. No cpu activity. Disabled SR and tried to re-register dll's. Was only able to re-register srclient.dll. Other dll's report loaded but "DllServerRegister point not found. . ." Suggestions please.
Hello & welcome to TSF,
To resolve this issue, restart the computer. If the error still occurs, search the hard drive for the presence of the Wininit.ini file, and then rename it. To do so, follow these steps:
1. Restart your computer in Safe or DOS Mode.
2. Click Start, point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders.
3. In the Named box, type wininit.ini.
4. In the Look in box, click Local hard drives, and then click Find Now.
5. Right-click the Wininit.ini file, click Rename, type wininit.xxx, and then click OK.
6. Close the Find Files window, and then run System Restore again.
7. If the previous steps do not resolve the problem, run the following command to repair the damaged portions of your registry:
scanreg /fix
System info:Windows Vista Home PremiumeMachine T5226Intel Pentium D CPU 3.00GHz4 GB RAM32-bit OSAll of a sudden, I went to set a manual Restore Point and I get the same message:"Could not create the Scheduled Task for the following reason:Cannot create a file when that file already exists.(0x800700B7)"I can change the name and still get the same pop-up, I have nearly visted all forums and tried everything, except pay MS $35 for the fix,which I cannot afford to do and buy medicine, since I am disabled and Part D Medicare for drugs is Bad.Can Anyone who really knows a fix, other than just reinstall and go through all, that, it seems to set points when programs call for it, but not the operator. Any help will be appreciated and rewarded by God, through my prayers. Thanks!
Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet Forum.
Based on my experience, error code 0x800700B7 indicates that the object cannot be created because an object with the same name already exists. Thus I suspect there is some shadow restore points stored on your computer. I recommend that you perform the following steps.
1. Change another location to save the new created restore point.
2. Resize Maximum Shadow Copy Storage Space by running the following command, there may be caused by limited space.
1) Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, and then right-click Command Prompt.
2) Click Run as administrator.
3) At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
vssadmin list shadowstorage /for=c:
4) Note the Maximum Shadow Copy Storage Space value.
5) At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=c: /on=c: /maxsize=300Mb
6) Close the Command Prompt window.
Hope this helps. Thanks.
I am having difficulties with this.
1. Does Win 7 limit the quantity of past restore points it shows upon user request?
2. If stored elsewhere where do I find them?
3. Is there a way to set it up to show at least the last 10 restore pointsd created, or is there a smaller limit.
Right now the one and only restore point that is available is the last one. So it is like a revolving door every time a new restore point gets created, the previous one gets dropped and does not show any longer.
Given my limited competence with computer knowledge please post answers in layman terms as in Step 1.. 2 3. type.
I would appreciate help over this.
Thank you kindly
I believe that if you go to Backup and Restore (Start button, type Backup in the search bar at the bottom of the start menu), then click Restore button, on the screen that pops up is a blue link that says "Choose a different Date".. This will then allow you to select which backup you would like to recover your data from..
Is that what you are looking for. Apologies If I have mis-understood you.
Automatic restore points are no longer being created in System restore on Vista laptop.
Manually created restore points disappear after a short time.
The following are the figures relating to System Restore;
Used Shadow Copy storage space 0 B
Allocated Shadow Copy storage space 0 B
Maximum Shadow Copy storage space 3 GB
Every time I try to increase the allocation the Maximum storage space increases but not
the allocation, and I get a message saying
Successfully resized the Shadow Copy storage association.
Would appreciate any help.
I find this often happens when there are disk read errors. Try doing a chkdsk /r then retry creating a restore point.
Check Disk - chkdsk
I have 8gb of space allocated to System Restore, all monitoring my C partition only. This space is always at least 85-90% used according to the System Protection screen. In the past I have had at least 15 restore points to choose from after ticking "show more restore points." But today I went to do a restore and there were only 7 points, despite almost the full 8gb allocation being shown as nearly full, as usual.
This is happening despite relative consistency in the size of my C partition at about 60gb. As always, I have the "restore system settings and previous versions of files" option chosen. And I've checked to ensure none of the drive's other partitions were inadvertently added to monitoring.
I've had Windows 7 for about three months, and saw a similar situation about two months ago. At that point I turned off System Restore and turned it back on, and things returned to normal. But now it's happening again, and this time I don't want to lose the Restore Points I currently have. Besides, the fact that this is happening makes me both curious and uncomfortable.
I've been creating 60% of my restore points manually. Is it possible those, for some reason, use a lot more space than automatically-generated points?
Would appreciate any ideas on what could be going on, and how to address it.
I suspect that one of your more recent restore points is taking more than the usual amount of space. This can vary widely. This could be due to a newly installed application or some kind of update.
On the few occasions I have used system restore it has always been the most recent restore point. The further back you go the more likely it is that the restore will fail or cause more problems than it solves.
I turned on my computer and realized that all of my files and programs were missing amongst all restore points. I ran Microsoft Security Essentials and no viruses were found. Is there any way to recover the lost data or is it a lost cause. I have a Toshiba, Windows 7, Intel Pentium. I am praying that I can recover this.
Check your user's folder, are you using the same logon account ? Sometimes windows logon fails and you get directed to a temporary account + folders and all your files will seem missing, when instead you are not looking at your previous documents folder.
After Tuesday's Windows update I couldn't boot into Windows and loaded my system repair disk planning to roll back to a restore point from the day before. But, the restore wizard couldn't find any restore points. I know my system does it daily and I did a manual one a week prior just to see if it would work and show up. It did.
So, my question is, if the wizard can't find the restore points am I hosed, or is there some other way to point the system to them.
What is your Computer doing when you try to boot...i.e. What happens?
Does the Monitor show anything?
Can you get into the BIOS?
Since upgrading system restore is not creating restore points automatically. I have to create them manually and then they are being deleted automatically every 3 - 7 days. I tried allocating more disk space to restore but that has done no good. I also use an uninstaller program which used to create restore points but although it tells me it is it's not! I feel very vulnerable now only having a week's worth of restore points - there have been times I've been glad to be able to restore back a few months! Never had trouble before the latest upgrade and haven't knowingly changed any settings. Be very grateful if anyone can solve this for me. Thanks FlissaRead other answers
Hi People,
I have system restore enabled for C: but not for the D: (which in my case is a recovery, as it came from the factory). I have not enabled that to be part of the system restore point creation. BUT STILL, every time there is a system restore point (either scheduled or manual) being made for C:, it also seems to create a restore point for D:. How is this possible?? Is there somewhere I could select the disks specifically other than the control panel>system>system protection?? Because here, only C: is checked.. but still restore points are being created for D:. Of course, when I uncheck the box next to D: and apply, it removes the restore point and it even asks me if I want to turn off restore point creation for that disk. I say yes, but then it comes back out of nowhere.
Thanks for any inputs/solutions. Cheers.
Anyone people??
For some reason my System Restore function isn't automatically creating (or isn't showing) System Restore points as it should be doing for "major" system events (e.g., isn't automatically creating restore points before/after Windows Updates and software/driver updates). I'm not sure if it isn't creating the restore points at all, or if it's just not displaying them as available restore points.
Another piece of the puzzle - I've manually created restore points at various times, and they have initially shown up on the list of available restore points as expected. However, when I looked at the list today, the restore points I created manually have Disappearead! I'm certain that I didn't delete them. I've selected every option I can think of to show me a complete list of available restore points, but no luck getting them to show up on the list. Also, my "Current Usage" is listed as "0 bytes", even though a few restore points are showing on the list. All of this makes me wonder if the system is creating the restore points, but just saving them in a way that makes them "invisible" to the System Restore utility.
Here's what I've done so far:
- Double checked my System Restore/Protection settings, and my system drive (C: ) is definitely set to "ON".
- Checked the System Restore configuration, and it's set to "Restore system settings and previous versions of files"
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My last automatically System Restore Point automatically created by the passage of time was created 2013-01-23.
No further automatic system restore points are being created (that means not ever, not daily, not weekly, simply no longer created automatically by the passage of time since last January).
I do not see restore points automatically created by other programs, like Acronis 2014 or Kaspersky KIS 2014 which I installed last week. (But the problem goes way back to January, so these new versions are obviously not involved.)
System restore points are still automatically created by Windows Update and by nVidia driver updates.
System restore points can still be created manually.
The SR task is present in Task Scheduler.
SFC /SCANNOW found no problems.
System Restore is still turned on.
There is free disk space for restore points.
The computer is a Dell Studio 9000, aka XPS 435T, core i7 960.
Windows 7 Home Premium with all the standard Windows Updates.
KIS 2013, now KIS2014
Acronis 2013, then 2014, and currently uninstalled.
Hiyya Keith mate run a chkdsk as well as the sfc you have done already and also these I know you have Kaspersky and so do I (2013) but I still pick up malware with the links .
Disk Check
download the ADW from bleeping computer and if you have CCleaner the run a clean up don't forget to save the cookies that you have that use passwords for site s you need and the registry check any faults back them u before you fix.
CCleaner - Download > download from piriform - you probably have but if not....
I work with a large software suite. The installer for this suite is really just a collection of many stand-alone installers.
If SR is on when I run the installation, it takes a very long time. Additionally, since this is a collection of other installers, SR is somewhat useless to use as a roll-back, since all of my RPs get replaced with intermediate points from the uber-installer.
The company itself suggests turning off SR so that things won't take so long.
Last time I installed this, something went wrong. I was unable to use or uninstall this software, and I was unable to roll-back the system since the SRs were gone.
Currently, my method is to create a full system backup before I run this installer. A pain in the neck.
Is there a way to save my RPs and then turn off SR while I run this? If something goes wrong, I could then apply the saved RP? Mainly, I am concerned about customer systems where I won't be able to create this backup.
Also, while I appreciate any comments or suggestions about the pain-in-the-neck software suite, there is truly nothing I can do about that. They are getting better with each release, but in the meantime I am stuck with it.
If you turn off system restore you will lose all restore points.
As far as I know there is no way of saving them and reinstating them if you switch system restore back on.
Hello everyone, not sure why but I get an error every time I open the System Restore. I rarely have to use a restore point as I regularly maintain my computer and check for viruses and malware, but I would like to have the option just in case. When I open System Properties, and click the System Protection tab, I get this error and am unable to create a Restore Point. Attached is a screenshot and a DxDiag.txt. Any insight to this problem would be helpful, perhaps I have some windows feature disabled that I might need enabled, I am not sure. I recently did a complete reformat of my hard drive and a fresh install of Windows, maybe two months ago, and somewhere along the line I must have removed/disabled something I need for System Restore. Even third party maintenance software is unable to create restore points, such as TuneUp Utilities 2014, AVG Internet Security 2014, and UVK. I'm sure the fix for this is simple, I am just unaware of it. Thanks in advance.
You have Tuneup Utilities? Have you looked at this?
System Restore Error 0x81000203 (Below solution at end of this mesage did not work)
Here is some other info as well including the Turbo mode problem
System Restore Error Code: 0x81000203 - Microsoft Community
it's turned on, i've created several restore points but i went in to do a resotre because of my office word 2003 appearance because it changed from the rest of the suite. my restore points are not there. none of them, if i stuff something up on here i will have to re-install windows. i don't want that. help me please.
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I have seen numerous people are having this problem but I have not been able to find a solution that works for me. I figured I would post my own problem and maybe somebody could recommend a solution.
I have been trying to use Windows System Restore on Windows 7 Home Premium. I have created several restore points on my own but when I restart and run the program, it says I have no restore points available. I have 40 gb allocated for restore points and have used less than 10 percent of my hard drive space.
does anybody know of any good process to follow that will fix this issue and make System Restore usable.
Thanks a lot.
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System Restore is no longer creating automatic restore points. All the necessary services are set to automatic, ie: task scheduler, volume shadow copy, microsoft software volume shadow copy, windows backup, and remote procedure call.
I tried disabling SR, then performed a disc cleanup, rebooted, then enabled SR. All that did was enable me to create ONE system restore point ONLY. If i try to create an additional restore point, I get the following error message:
You might want to try
Do you have any security software installed on the computer?
Are any third party backup programs installed on your computer?
Verify if these two services are started and running on your computer. If it's not started, start the services and check if you can create a system restore point.
a) Volume Shadow Copy service
b) Windows backup
Also ensure that their dependency services are running.
Verify if their dependency services are running.
You can check this information from services.msc. To do this follow the steps below:
a) Go to start and type services.msc in the search field.
b) Locate the two services.
c) Right-Click on the service one at a time.
d) Select properties.
e) Go to Dependencies Tab.
f) Note the dependency services.
g) Make sure they're also running.
h) To start a service, right click on it and select start.
From many users facing the same issue, turning off system restore for the hard disk on which Windows is installed and turning it back on seems to have solved the issue.
You may try the same.
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Brand new laptop running Vista 32-bit. Went to verify that System Resore was periodically creating restore points, and despite the app appearing to be set-up correctly, there are no auto restore points listed- just the ones generated by various software chages. Any suggestions what's going on because as mentioned, the feature is active- just not automatically establishing restore points-
Many thanks in advance
Automatic Restore Points is not working in System Restore. Task Scheduler is empty during last 30 days.
Hello Rocasan,
Double check to make sure that System Protection is turned on for your Windows drive.
Next, use the free program CCleaner to see what it shows for what restore points you may have like below.
Hope this helps for now,
I have a problem with System Restore only keeping restore points 5 days back at the most. So for example, the oldest restore point I have currently is from September 6, 2007. I've had this Vista x64 install for around a month now. I should have restore points dating back to about August 1st or so.
I've got plenty of HD space too......around 500GB free I believe so that's not an issue. I don't have any viruses. I bet this is an easy fix, it's just that I don't know what that is. Vista is supposed to automatically make restore points every day doesn't it? According to this post at this site, Vista is supposed to save restore points for around 136 years. http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread82418.html
While I don't need it that long, I'd like it save them for around 6 months to a year or even whatever the default is supposed to be. I had a problem with a Windows update about a month ago. I think it was a security update or something. Anyway, I don't know which one or why, but it borked my system and I couldn't even boot, not even in Safe Mode. So I put the Vista x64 DVD in and went to use System Restore and I didn't have any restore points. I had no other choice than to reinstall Windows. I just want to know why it's doing this and how I can stop it before I have to use System Restore again and I have to reinstall again.
Thanks in advance!
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Hello everybody
Finally finished the project I started, because I found that if I wanted to run System Restore on my computer ( with Windows Vista ), it took ages before it opened.
The tools provide the ability to run a Restore Point,
without the standard interface of System Restore.
Please read the readme file for more info.
Kind regards
Yet again another nice tool Sweet
I have windows vista (32bit) and have been having problems with system restore recently. When I try to use system restore it tells me that I have no restore points. I can make manual restore points but there are no automatic points and when I next try to use system restore often the manual restore points I made previously have disappeared!
Any Help would be greatly appreciated.
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1. Computer: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64 bit, 298 GB HD
I used this laptop to get access to internet to repair my home computer (Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit). First I messed permissions on home computer and then also on this laptop. Windows installer didn't work on any of them. I managed to repair it on Windows 7 Ultimate with gpedit.msc and installer was fine. However, permissions still weren't. So I gave a try subinacl.msi and reset.bat. It did repair some but not all of the permissions to default. I therefore decided to do a system restore. It took for over two hours and then came up with 'not enough disk space'. I decided to do it again, however, this time a message 'no system restore points have been created' appeared. I knew there are system restore points as I had seen them two hours back. I thought it was something with permissions. So I took ownership of SVI, giving SYSTEM and Administrators full control. I also checked HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Reliability.
I also started and set to automatic the following services:
Windows Event Log
Windows Volume Shadow Copy
The right drive was selected for the restore point.
Is there any thing/service I missed?
SVI is set to 'read only for the content' and I have selected the right hard drive to make system restore on. The selected one is C:\ with OS on it and the other one is F:\ which has system protection off. Is that ok?
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Hello everyone
I recently ran Advanced System Optimizer 3 and optimized my system in a hurry. Without thinking and to my regret, I did not manually create a system restore point before doing this.
I have noticed several changes (albeit non-major but nonetheless uncomfortably different) with my use.
1. Certain thumbnails/links which are supposed to have images on them now appear to be broken (that paper torn in half sign instead)
2. Hotmail's autocomplete whenever you start typing an email addresses' first few words no longer functions.
I have yet to discover more irregularities but as far as I know Advanced System Optimizer must have removed or deleted something after I clicked optimize now which is causing all these.
I tried to system restore it to a time before I actually ran the optimization which was about 9 am on 9th of November 2011 but all I see is an 11 am restore point on the same day in the restore point list. When I click show me more restore points, it does not show me more but remains with just the 1 point which I've said.
Is my case already a goner and it's already too late to turn back or is it possible to somehow access more previous restore points? It would be better still to access a 8th of November 2011 restore point (which again presently shows only the 9th of November point and nothing else), BEFORE I did a scan of the system even and just revert everything to how it once was.
Here's a follow up to my case, I've managed to solve problem no.1 as I found out that it occurred in almost all websites I tried to access. It mainly showed the HTML coding instead of all the usual colours and decorations. So what I did was hold shift and click refresh and it solved everything including the thumbnail not appearing issue. Apparently after doing this everytime I returned to those sites it didn't give any problems.
The Hotmail issue still persists though. I am quite an email heavy user and find this quite annoying. Whenever I click reply, it's as if I'm composing a completely new email with no address in the bar, no RE: subject and no previous incoming email which I can refer to in replying that email. The autocomplete email address email still persists.
Any help on this?
Edit: It all eventually solved itself.
Hi, All,
In my Win XP Pro SP1 installation, my System Restore has a very erratic "memory." It usually only remembers restore points from a few days back, and often times forgets all of my restore points. Even though I regularly create manual restore points (install apps, etc.), they never seem to be available more than a day or so after I create them.
My settings look like this:
Turn off System Restore on all drives: NOT checked
My C: drive: Monitoring
Max disk space: 3.6GB (12%)
My D: drive: Monitoring
I've also examined the registry (HKLM\Soft\M$\WinNT\CV\SysRest, blah blah) and the keys look good (at default values). Any idea why my System Restore is so brain dead?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Firstly, I can only create manual restore points in System Restore but they usually disappear
overnight and, as a novice, I am at a loss to understand this.
Why does system restore only shows the two restore points where I backed up my computer to my external drive. And If I try to restore that, then it says, The backup drive could not be found. How would that matter though? I mean I only backed up my system to an external drive. I didn't create a system restore point to my external hd.
I created a manual system restore earlier today and now it's gone for some reason.
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Hello everyone,
I have a repeat problem that I cannot explain: My system creates system restore points just fine (at least, the ones I create manually and can confirm that they are there), but they vanish upon restart.
I have a Toshiba Satellite P750 running Windows 7 Home Premium.
I discovered this issue for the first time in November 2012 when my computer had a hard crash. That was when I learned that it was deleting my restore points. I was forced to do a factory reset. After that, System Restore functioned normally--for a while. Then it began eating restore points again.
About a month ago, I had to do ANOTHER factory reset. Again, System Restore started working--creating and keeping restore points. But just a few weeks into a "brand new" system and they're completely gone again.
I can't understand why this keeps happening even after factory reset.
This is a problem I've investigated multiple times over the last few years and haven't found a solution for yet.
Does anyone here have any advice?
I have had similar problems in the past with System Restore (the restores points don't get lost, they just don't always work) so I turned it off and just depend on imaging now, using Macrium Reflect Free (here is a good tutorial on how to use Macrium Reflect). I've yet to have an image fail to restore.Read other 3 answers
Hi, I need your help.
I'm running a Windows 7 64 bit.
Last week I was going through my game folders and renaming a few of them and adding more info (my folders were a mess, organization wise). I also installed some older games I had on hard drive, to see if I want them anymore. So quite a bit of installing and uninstalling was happening, like say 20 games or so in a week.
Then yesterday one old game would not uninstall (not showing up in control panel list of programs), and so I decided to use system restore as a way to uninstall it. I restored the system to about four days prior...then a weird thing happened. Some of my folders were divided in two, the folder with the old name and another with with the modified name. Like if originally had a folder named "chess games" which had couple days ago during my reorganizing effort renamed to "Fritz Chess 9", now I had both! But they were not exact copies. What was contained in the original folder was now randomly divided between these two folders, like one subfolder in one and the rest in the other.
Also, the there were other folders that some of the actual content was missing. Like the ISO file. If I have 50 game folders, about 15 were affected, either in the sense of having duplicates or having game files missing. I am not sure but I think this happened only (at least mostly) to folders that I had changed the title of recently. The other ones were fine.
What did I do?
-I tried to merge th... Read more
It appears to me something happened when you did the System Restore. I would try that again to the same date and see if it gets rid of all the divided folders. I have never heard of anything like that. Let us know what happens.Read other 3 answers
Win XP.
Whilst accessing System Restore(Safe Mode) in System Config: Utility,I Selected Diag.Start Up-Launch System Restore,after looking in System,Win &Boot Inis(I may have inadvertantly selected something there).
When I accessed System Restore,I was informed I had NO Restore Points. However,I previously had some in this month.
I endeavoured to go back to go back to December 03 but failed.
Have I lost my Restore points for good,please?
If you ever disable System Restore, all your Restore Points are lost. This is by design-if you ever need to remove a virus or trojan, they can't hide in System Restore to avoid removal. I would suggest you go to your System Volume Information folder and see if any Restore Points show up there.
I'm having a problem with Win 7 Home Premium and would appreciate any help. My Lenovo Think Pad Edge E420s has system restore enabled how ever it only creates a restore point if I manually create it.
When I launch System restore I get the screen I'm attaching below. All my updates are current Lenovo, Windows, Drivers and Service pack. When I restart as the screen say's the PC restarts. Then when I Start System Restore I get the same box.
Lenovo E420s
Win 7 Home Premium
300 gb hdd
8gb ram
i5 intel core processor
Any ideas on my problem? Thanks Tim Fitz
For pending update problems which also tend to ruin System Restore functionality, running the two commands in the link below might help.
Tritech Computer Solutions: Windows Vista and 7 Update Reboot Loop Fix
Hi,New guy here, looking for some help. System restore looks like it is running ok, but there are no restore points available, when attempting to make new restore point i get the message "system restore is not able to create a restore point. Please restart the computer and then run system restore again". Reboot including cold boot do not help. System restore settings say both drives are being monitored, separate xp os on each drive and system restore is working on "old" unused drive, and it seems I can not turn off monitoring in only one of the drives. I spent all day reading up and tried going into the reg to check and see DisableSR set at 0, like i read it is supposed to.(HKEY_local_machine, system restore) , tried right clicking sr.inf, but got the message that I needed the service pac 3 files and I must have done something wrong there because when entered the path to SP flies and I clicked ok nothing happened..
I found this in a sr.inf notepad, then I went into the reg.
But when I looked in reg in HKEY_LOCAL_system,services,sr, parameters, reg_dword DontBacklup value is set to 0. This seems correct to me but this is... Read more
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Hey guys, I just upgraded from Windows XP Professional 32bit to Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. Everything is working great except whenever I restart the computer all my system restore points disappear.
In system protection I have system restore on with Max.Usage at 2%
How can I fix this? Thanks.
How much is 2%. And how do you actually know they disappear -maybe there were none.Read other 9 answers
Hi there,
My Windows 7 Home (64bit), Dell 1721 Inspiron has just crashed. I cannot enter Windows in Safe Mode.
I can however access the System Recovery page but it says that it cannot find any restore points. The message is:
"To use System Restore, you must specify which Windows installation to restore.
Restart this computer, select an operating system, and then select System Restore".
The issue is actually as described here:
SATA Drivers - Load in Windows Recovery Options, i.e. no Operating Systems are being shown.
I know the machine creates regular Restore Points; I had even checked this in Task Scheduler in the past and all was working fine.
In order to show the Operating Systems it is requesting that the hard disk drivers are installed.
I've downloaded the AMD SATA drivers from here: DriverPack Mass Storage 10.03 for Windows Vista (x64) | DriverPacks.net
and when I click "Load Drivers" then it says "Adding Drivers..." and then it goes back to the same screen, i.e. the first screen here: SATA Drivers - Load in Windows Recovery Options
So to summarise, I know there are restore points, but I cannot access them.
I'm really stuck so any ideas are appreciated.
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Hi there,
My Windows 7 Home (64bit), Dell 1721 Inspiron has just crashed. I cannot enter Windows in Safe Mode.
I can however access the System Recovery page but it says that it cannot find any restore points. The message is:
"To use System Restore, you must specify which Windows installation to restore.
Restart this computer, select an operating system, and then select System Restore".
The issue is actually as described here:
SATA Drivers - Load in Windows Recovery Options, i.e. no Operating Systems are being shown.
I know the machine creates regular Restore Points; I had even checked this in Task Scheduler in the past and all was working fine.
In order to show the Operating Systems it is requesting that the hard disk drivers are installed.
I've downloaded the AMD SATA drivers from here: DriverPack Mass Storage 10.03 for Windows Vista (x64) | DriverPacks.net
and when I click "Load Drivers" then it says "Adding Drivers..." and then it goes back to the same screen, i.e. the first screen here: SATA Drivers - Load in Windows Recovery Options
So to summarise, I know there are restore points, but I cannot access them.
I'm really stuck so any ideas are appreciated.
If I am not mistaken the message is not saying there are no restore points, it is saying you must select which windows OS you want to restore. DId it come with another OS on it (ie vista) ... Read more
Regarding system restore.
I have an 80gig hd with 23gig spare. In system properties>system protection>automatic restore points, I have ticked drive C. Yet there are no restore points listed unless I do a manual restore point.
Is there another setting somewhere that may be inhibiting automatic creation of restore points?
I've neglected this problem for too long and I would like to get it resolved.
My sys restore is not saving ANY restore points, except for the very last one that is an auto one created by Win7. If I manually create one, it will appear in the list for the time being, but if I shut down or restart the computer, it will not be there the next time I check. I'm running Win 7 64 pro . I have restore set to ON for the drive and have the space set to 15 gb . Any help would be appreciated .
It sounds like something you have in auto startup might be deleting restore points.
The first thing i would do is manually create a restore point.
Don't run any cleanup utilities before restarting.
Then restart the PC in Safe Mode and see if the restore point is still there.
Safe Mode
I tap the F8 key when the PC is booting to select Safe Mode when i want it.
I've had this problem before,
and night, EST around 11PM -12 AM my system became quite slow, I check
processes on Task Manager and saw that svshost.exe was in the 90's
I closed by browser but it remained there so I diconnected my connection that bought it down,
It may have been automatic updates loading the update that I can choose to download.
In any case I looked for what may have happened in events but could not decipher anything in
particular, but did find this that occurred after, . . .
Event Type: Error
Event Source: sr
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Date: 10/10/2013
Time: 12:47:44 AM
User: N/A
Computer: BOING-417332229
The System Restore filter encountered the unexpected error '0xC0000098' while processing the file
'Performance.lnk' on the volume 'HarddiskVolume3'. It has stopped monitoring the volume.
For more
information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
0000: 00 00 00 00 04 00 4e 00 ......N.
0008: 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 c0 .......À
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
Product: Wi... Read more
you may find this of interest.
I wanted to do a system restore, preferably to a date about two months previously, but my choices through Windows 7 were only back about a week! This isn't nearly long enough ago, but it apparently is all I have, so it's no good. I'm not wanting to do this for some future date - I need to do it now to address an issue. But going back a week won't do it for me.
Is there a way to tweak the system in order to get back further in time, or is it too late for that?
It is too late Windows 7 deletes old restore points to make room for new ones. Try increasing the space the restore points will be allow to be stored. Why are you wanting to perform a system restore is there an issue with you Windows?
But I see you have xp on your profile are you running Win7 or XP?
I may have had some malware in the past, I got rid of it (or I am pretty sure I did).
It was worked on in this thread:
This is a windows 7 x64 Dell system.
I thought system restore was making regular restore points after the procedures I did then.
On looking today, I got a message that no restore points had been created.
So I created a couple manually.
They declared success.
They seem to be there. The two that I just created are on the list.
But I should have many of them. I check the box "show more restore point" but no more appear.
So the automatic system restore point creation in system protection is not working.
What can I do to get the system protection to be actually working?
Well, this is interesting. I have two drives at the moment, my system drive had no space allocated. So I just allocated 13% to system protection. 250 gb.
The system drive is also second on the list, but I don't know if that is significant.
I just looked at the two restore points I created, they both reference my external drive, not my system drive, which is the one that is important.
I just created a manual restore point on that drive. I said success.
I will have to check to see if restore points are being created automatically and post back.
Hello, Welcome to BleepingComputer.I'm nasdaq and will be helping you.If you can please print this topic it will make it easier for you to follow the instructions and complete all of the necessary steps in the order listed.===Run this tool.The first command is to create a restore point. Post the log for my review.Temporarily disable your AV program so it does not interfere.Info on how to disable your security applications How To Temporarily Disable Your Anti-virus, Firewall And Anti-malware Programs - Security Mini-Guides.Download Zeok tool from hereWhen the download appears, save to the Desktop.On the Desktop, right-click the Zoek.exe file and select: Run as Administrator(Give it a few seconds to appear.)Next, copy/paste the entire script inside the code box below to the input field of Zoek:
Now...Close any open Browsers.Click the Run script button, and wait. It takes a few minutes to run all the script.When the tool finishes, the zoek-results.log is opened in Notepad.The log is also found on the systemdrive, normally C:\If a reboot is needed, the log is opened after the reboot.Please attach the zoek-results.log in your reply.Also, please provide an update on how the computer is behaving after running the above script.
System restore failed to extract the file ? from the restore point. There was a disk failure during the restore. This might be caused by bad sectors on the disk.
I get the same message, but with a different file name, with every restore point I try, and I have now tried all seven available restore points, going back to 30 Dec 2011.
The computer was working perfectly until 3 days ago when it blue screened, and has not started properly since.
It is a Corei5 with 4 GB RAM and is only 12 months old. I just don?t believe the drive has that many bad sectors.
Given that it won?t start and it won?t restore, is the only solution to reformat and start again?
Have you done a Disk Check on the drive to attempt to fix/recover the bad sectors? That would be the first step.
Disk Check
System restore is on and set to max space on C drive (918GB)
When I create a restore point, it take s a min or two then says it creates successfully, but when I open system restore, it shows no restore points.
I have already made sure that the Volume Shadow Copy Service is Running & set on Automatic AND I Reset the Repository.
Still it does not work.
Thank you for any further ideas.
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System restore is on and set to max space on C drive (918GB) <- -
Hello prossv, welcome to Seven Forums!
Surly this must be an error, the allotted storage space can't be set this high?
My system restore is no longer creating any restore points, I have to do it manually. About 3 weeks ago I had a virus that I believe I got rid of using HiJackThis. That virus shut off my system restore so that it could not be used and at that time I lost all my restore points. Now my computer seems fine except for the system is not creating any NEW restore points. Any advice? I'll include my Logfile...
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0
Scan saved at 6:46:14 PM, on 2/22/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)
Running processes:
C:\Program Files\Weather Network\WeatherEye.exe
C:\Program Files\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.secularbull.com/
R3 - Default URLSearchHook is missing
N3 - Netscape 7: user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://secularbull.com"); (C:\Documents and Settings\Kelvin Kolman\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\rfaavem5.slt\prefs.js)
N3 - Netscape 7: user_pref... Read more
Right click my computer>properties>system restore and make sure there is no check in " turn off system restore"
I ran a system restore without creating restore points. The computer will start up but after a minute I get a blue screen. The screen tells me to restart my computer to fix the problem and if that doesn't work, other options.
I don't know much about computers/operating systems and I don't want to make this worse. Is there anyway to do "undo" a system restore? I know I can't do it in safe mode or in normal mode (it does not give me an "undo" option, let alone, restore points). I'm running Vista, 64 bit.
Thanks in advance for your help
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Based on the real-life Chicken Ranch in La Grange, Texas, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas will open Thursday at the Southampton Cultural Center.
The musical, presented by Center Stage, is by Carol Hall, Larry L. King and Peter Masterson. Michael Disher directs and Karen Hochstedler serves as musical director.
The story is set in the last 1970s—when The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas debuted on Broadway. The infamous brothel has been operating outside of fictional Gilbert, Texas for more than a century. It is under the proprietorship of Miss Mona Stangley, (Valerie diLorenzo) having been left to her by the previous owner. While taking care of her girls, she is also on good terms with the local sheriff, Ed Earl Dodd (Daniel Becker). When crusading television reporter, Melvin P. Thorpe (Bill Kitzerow) decides to make the illegal activity a political and moral issue, loosened morals, belts and politicians abound.
Carlin Glynn and Henderson Forsythe won Tonys for their performances on Broadway, and the 1982 film adaptation starred Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds and Jim Nabors.
In Addition to Ms. diLorenzo, Mr. Becker and Mr. Kitzerow, Center Stage's cast also features Richard Adler, Lynda Aydinian, Tony D'Alessio, Bethany Dellapolla, Adam Fronc, Richard Gardini, Barbara Jo Howard, Hailey Kohlus, John Leonard, Joan Lyons, Sabrina Manglaviti, Marc Rix, Thomas Rosante, Amy Rowland, Emily Selyukova, Lon Shomer, Robert Stafford, Josephine Wallace, Thomas Wheeler, Edna Winston and Susan Wojcik.
Showtimes through November 3 are Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets are $25 for general admission or $12 for students under 21 with ID. Group rates are also available. Call 631-287-4377 or visit scc-arts.org.


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Image of a memorial pole at Alert Bay. Inscription at the bottom held by the figure reads "In loving memory of Tlaowa Latle of the Qiowasudinuk (Kwakwaka'wakw: Kwikwasut'inuxw) Tribe. Died Nov. 9 [rest of inscription illegible].
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by Ben Malbon, co-founder of BBH Labs.
Technology … is a queer thing.
It brings you great gifts with one hand,
and it stabs you in the back with the other.
–C.P. Snow, New York Times, March 15, 1971–
There's a battle raging, yet it's almost Truman Show-like in its subtlety. It's the battle between art and the algorithm. Between emotion and rationality. Between indescribable magic and perfect information.
Jim Carrey, in 'The Truman Show'
As the granular world of relevance, measurability and accountability tightens its grip on the increasingly emaciated flesh of businesses struggling to re-tool quickly enough to survive, many are rushing too quickly away from striving for the magic that has characterized the work we all admire, no matter what the decade or canvas.
As far as I know, no one is trying to kill me. Yet, I sometimes feel a little like the unfortunate hero at the center of the dystopian sci-fi thriller "Minority Report," John Anderton. The famous mall scene in which Anderton (Tom Cruise), is assaulted by dozens of individually targeted ads — some of which, much to his horror, even loudly broadcast his name as he passes — represents a world a lot closer to ours than the fictional date of 2054.
It's a world of perfect targeting. Optimization. Zero wastage. Absolute utility. Total accountability.
More and more of what I see, hear, read and even taste seems exceptionally cunningly targeted at me. My RSS feeds me handpicked news streams. I get perfect movie recommendations via Netflix, books I'll enjoy via Amazon, uncannily relevant advertising when using Gmail, weirdly familiar music from Last fm. Satnav keeps me resolutely on the data-derived optimum track. And so on.
All remarkable stuff. It seems Arthur C. Clarke wasn't far off when he noted how "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
What could be possibly be wrong with all this? In this new world where relevance — of information, of entertainment, of advertising, even of new social contacts — is increasing by the atomically measured second, all powered by the extraordinary power of the Almighty Algorithm, what are we losing?
Well, these shifts are triggering a smoothing out in our experiences, prompting a reduction in serendipity and introducing a spooky predictability to many facets of our lives. It's becoming clear that ultra relevance comes with a hidden price. Because if everything's relevant, then nothing's unexpected, and if nothing's unexpected, then nothing surprises you, and if nothing surprises you, then that's a strange, neutralized, vanilla kind of life to lead. Think John Anderton meets Truman Burbank.
We're talking about the end of surprise.
John Stuart Mill, writing in 1836, coined the term "economic man" in painting a picture of someone who was an ultra-rational being. The day Google was born in 1998 could be said to be the birthday of "algorithmic man" or the ultra-relevant being. Some might argue this is an inevitable cultural outcome of the fusion of technology and economics, the creeping onset of what Mill called "perfect information." Yet, just as economic man didn't really exist, nor does algorithmic man.
And right there is the opportunity for marketing: to deliver not just relevance, but revelation.
Surprise is the "killer" form of impact, driving engagement, and powering word of mouth. As the world slides towards increasing reverence of relevance, the opportunity is to re-commit to touching people in powerful ways that genuinely surprise them, whether with products, experiences or communications. We must re-find our ability to craft magic, to move people, to deliver the unexpected, never-seen-before experience, to blow minds and touch hearts. That doesn't mean fighting against the algorithm; on the contrary, it could mean working with it.
How? A tiny amount of work currently does this.
AKQA's work for Halo 3 is a brilliant example of how great interactive can genuinely move people by reframing something that they've seen before (the honoring of heroes) in a surprising way — in this case through alloying personalization and interactivity with emotion.
Just about anything by Jonathan Harris hits this spot on. His "We Feel Fine" from 2005 is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale. It's a brilliant coming together of art and mathematics, a fusion of art and the algorithm, resulting in a compelling, immersive experience that touches users (still) because it is profound, simple, beautiful and occasionally funny all at the same time.
But too little work has played in this area. Only a handful of businesses of any shape, size or persuasion seem to have succeeded in marrying the two — art and the algorithm, magic and interactivity, surprise and efficiency — in how they operate and in what they produce.
How might this be achieved?
One, creative businesses need to cherish and empower the people who understand technology, consumers' relationships with it, and brands potential uses for it. Technology must be the catalyst of a new creativity, not just a set of new delivery channels or production options.
Two, creative businesses need to create arranged marriages between these people (the algorithmicists) and the magicians or artists. Only a fusion of these two strands of creativity at the earliest conceivable opportunity in a process will lead to the most adventurous outcomes.
Three, in an era where everything that was once solid does appear to be melting into air, creative businesses need to recommit to surprise as a potent strand of engagement. To paraphrase Ming Yeow Ng, one of the founders of Discover.io, if discovery is the new cocaine, then we'd all be wise to get a whole lot better at dealing in not just relevance, but revelation.
We believe this is the opportunity for the marketing and communications industry. Exploiting the awesome power of the new world of relevance whilst creating more surprising and engaging experiences. In short, then, how can we encourage a collision between art and the algorithm?
Far from having all the answers, we have so much to learn. So more immediately, we'd really appreciate your feedback, ideas, and viewpoints.
Go on, surprise us.
(An earlier version of this post appeared on MediaPost, April 27 2009 – http://bit.ly/aWcwq. One correction has been made since the original post was published: I had incorrectly suggested the Halo 3 interactive work was produced by McCann when it was actually produce by AKQA; this has been amended in this version of the post)


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If you're charged with a nonviolent crime in one Alabama town, you might just have the chance to pray it all away.
Starting this week, under a new program called Operation ROC (Restore Our Community), local judges in Bay Minette, Alabama, will give those found guilty of misdemeanors the choice of serving out their time in jail, paying a fine or attending church each Sunday for a year.
The goal of the program is to help steer those who are not yet hardened criminals the chance to turn their lives around. Those who choose to go to church (there are no mosques or synagogues in the area) will have to check in with a pastor and the police department each week, CNN affiliate WKRG reported. Once you attend church every week for a year the case would be dismissed.
Police Chief Mike Rowland said the measure is one that would help save money and help direct people down the right path. Rowland told WKRG it costs $75 a day to house each inmate.
"Longevity is the key," he told WKRG.
He said he believes 30-day drug programs don't have the long-term capabilities to heal someone in the ways the ROC program might.
Police in the town said they think it is a simple choice, but others think it's a choice that shouldn't even be offered.
The ACLU in Alabama said the idea is "blatantly unconstitutional," according to the Alabama Press-Register.
"It violates one basic tenet of the Constitution, namely that government can't force participation in religious activity," Olivia Turner, executive director for the ACLU of Alabama told the paper.
Rowland acknowledged there were concerns about separation of church and state complaints but said he didn't see it as too big of a problem because offenders weren't being forced to attend church, they are just being given the option.
The offenders who voluntarily choose church over jail get to pick the churches they attend. If they complete a year's attendance, Rowland said, their criminal case would be dismissed.
I LOVE the idea!!! it's not forced, and it could do some good! And to all those who say it is a violation of separation of church and state, get over itf! Our country was FOUNDED on the Gospel of Jesus Christ! It is the inmates CHOICE!!!
What if my favorite church is "Satanists For Sobriety"?
Can I still attend the church of my choice?
There are two very major things wrong with this.
1) While we're not yet REQUIRING you to be religious to be socially acceptable, we ARE undoubtedly IMPLYING that people who go to church have a higher moral standard. They're more pure; they couldn't do anything wrong; they're good people. This is one of many indirect ways that society in America has been highly pushing religion in a (supposedly) secular nation.
2) I'm almost guaranteeing you must be going to a CHRISTIAN church to participate. I'm darned near positive that they would never allow you to go to a mosque for a year and be cleared.
Being a 15 year old Atheist in America is difficult when you're able to pick up subtle hints. People usually don't directly tell me "you're a terrible person for denying God", but certain instances like this imply that you must be a good citizen if you attend church regularly.
because u don't get brainwashed in churches to kill others as they do in mosques, but yet again we're talking about america here: anything's possible…
That other guy is wrong. there most certainly christian churches that brainwash their members to kill people. how else do you explain abortion clinic bombings and other christian terrorism?
That is a wonderful program. I pray that it will be implemented in all 52 states.
52 states? Wow
This is so wrong, and no, offering someone a choice between Jail, or fine, with a permanent criminal record, or attend a CHRISTIAN church only and have the criminal record dismissed is not really an option, it is discrimination against non-Christians. (the article specifically says there are Mosques or Synagogues) Why not offer community service as an option. Our court system should not be giving special priviledges to people based on their religion (the special priviledge being having no criminal record, whereas those who pay a fine or go to jail end up with a permanent criminal record. This program also promotes bigotry by implying ONLY Christians can become law abiding citizens, as I see no option to attend a secular or non-Christian base rehab program. So the message is very clear, if you are a Jew, or agnostic or Buddhist, you can't turn your life around, only Christians can become law abiding citizens.
This is wrong whichever angle you look at it...
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We had a few words with Nymh, the first player in the world to reach level 80 in Wrath of the Lich King.
MMO-Champion: Hello Nymh, and congratulations for your level 80 ! Could you tell us a bit more about yourself ?
Nymh: I play a warlock named Nymh on the french server Drek'thar. I used to be the guild leader of Harmonie, a french top PvE guild who was among the first 10 guilds to kill Kil'jaeden in France, but we eventually decided to merge with the 2nd guild of our server. The result is Genesis, which was originally an pre-BC high level guild. In real life I'm 21 and currently employed, I took a few days of vacation for the release of the expansion.
MMO-Champion: You reached the max level 27 hours after the european servers went online, that's pretty fast even if you spend all your time leveling ... Could you tell us how you achieved that ?
Nymh: The idea first came up when I saw this post from Jynxx. The idea looked nice and I decided to run a few tests on beta servers. It took about 3 hours to level from 78 to 79 and considering that it was one of the longest level, it seemed good enough to use this strategy to powerlevel at the release.
The biggest problem was to find a spot with enough monsters to grind without too much downtime ... I spent some time on beta servers and eventually found the crypt in Drakil'ji Ruins (Grizzly Hills), I think that's one of the only place in Wrath of the Lich King where monsters repop in about 30 seconds, mobs here are also neutral and it makes grinding a little safer.
I also had to optimize my downtimes and decided to level with a healer out of party, Pavelomm was nice enough to spend the last 27 hours healing me without taking any XP and he obviously played a huge role in the process.
When I reached level 76 I realized that my leveling speed was slightly lower than what I experienced in beta, I decided to change the template from the original post and switched to something with 2 points in Shadow Mastery to make my DoTs stronger and the leveling a bit easier. (It usually takes 2 DoTs to kill a monster)
MMO-Champion: The first level 80 was supposed to be Darus, a paladin who did some powerleveling in instances with Athene and a few other people and eventually got suspended by Blizzard at level 79. (and reseted to level 70 a few hours later) Did you hear about him ?
Nymh: Yeah I had a few people monitoring other servers to give me updates about the situation here, I don't really know how Darus did that but I assume it will be hotfixed by Blizzard very soon.
MMO-Champion: Is there anyone you want to thank ?
Nymh: Sure ! There are a bunch of people who helped a lot with my leveling.
- Pavelomm was nice enough to stay with me for the last 27 hours and managed to keep me alive for all this time!
- Pratax originally planned to level with me but couldn't be here due to last minute work obligations, he helped me a lot during beta when I was planning everything.
- Ardanell / Bro / Zhazha were nice enough to run all the way to Grizzly Hills to teleport me to Ironforge and let me train my new spells without wasting too much time.
- Coralie, who was nice enough to buy me the game 2 days ago!
And of course, the whole Genesis guild and all the players from Drek'thar-EU!


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(Santa Barbara, Calif.) In response to the growing need for a way to easily access and analyze massive amounts of heterogeneous data in the fields of earth and environmental sciences, UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), a core partner in a joint effort to streamline such research, presents DataONE, the Data Observation Network for Earth. DataONE is capable of providing researchers access to globally distributed, networked data from a single point of discovery.
"People have been gathering and synthesizing ecological data for decades," said NCEAS Director of Informatics Research and Development and DataONE co-investigator Matthew Jones. Much of the problem an issue that NCEAS has been working to address since its inception in 1995 is the time and effort spent on locating, gathering, checking, and transforming data of interest for synthesis.
It's an effort that can take researchers nearly a year to complete, as they examine and analyze various forms of information, from remotely sensed data, to hundreds of published papers, to historic observational field data. Simultaneously, these researchers search remote repositories, check for duplicates, and integrate the information, as they try to find answers to complex problems that affect both science and society.
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DataONE, through the knowledge and infrastructure provided by library, computer, and environmental science experts, currently integrates information held by South Africa National Parks; the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity; the Ecological Society of America; Dryad; Oak Ridge National Laboratories Distributed Active Archive Center, the United States Geological Survey, the Long Term Ecological Research Network; the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans; and the California Digital Library. In the coming months, more organizations are joining as members to make their data accessible.
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NCEAS is one of three national coordinating nodes, housing large data storage and computing resources in the UCSB data center at the California Nanosystems Institute. The two other coordinating nodes are located at University of Tennessee and University of New Mexico. With the sponsorship of the Davidson Library, NCEAS plans to move its data center to the North Hall Data Center on the UCSB campus.
DataONE is an outgrowth of a series of repository efforts, starting with the creation of the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) in 1998, which is the repository housing output from NCEAS' synthesis efforts. The KNB repository is open to submissions from ecologists and environmental scientists throughout the world, and represents a streamlined way for investigators to preserve and share their data with colleagues. As a participating node in DataONE, any data added to the KNB is automatically accessible.
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In my July article in Research, I published an appeal to advisors to fill out my "Best Practices 2011" survey. Over 380 FAs responded. To everyone who helped: Thankyouverymuch!!
Let me reiterate my view of "best practices:"
The one thing that differentiates top producers from those who struggle, and even those who almost make it to the winners' circle, is this: those who make it to the end of the rainbow do a little bit better at practically every aspect of the business. Not a single one of these ideas or practices will get you there, but a combination, while continually adding more, is what will keep you moving on the path to being the best.
To put it another way: There is no secret to success except this: Implement more "best practices" across the entirety of your business.
Scope of Business
Since I launched my survey, I have written a series of follow-up best practices articles. They are archived at www.financialadvisorsmarketing.net/category/best-practices. As you plan your new year, I would consult them and incorporate best practices that you do not yet own into your plan.
For you to succeed beyond the hated "average," you must deploy best practices in four areas.
One of these is investment strategy. A major reason advisors lose clients is poor investment performance. A reason you don't generate lots of referrals is poor or mediocre performance. Today, in my opinion, good investment performance must include a method to get out of the way of the next trainwreck. I covered this in my June 2010 Research article, "Get New Clothes: Don't Stick with a Nakedly Wrong Strategy," available on AdvisorOne.com.
In addition to your investment skills, you must also deploy best practices in the management of your business, your client relationship skills and your prospecting skills. Drawing from my survey, I will now show you some of what I consider to be the best "best practices."
Winners and Not
In the tables that follow, you can study key business characteristics of two groups of advisors:
Winners. I decided to use $200 million in AUM as my own version of the "winner's circle." Almost all of these have been in business 10 years or longer.
Not Winners. I would certainly not use the term "loser" for this group. Many will have incomes way above the national average. But per the skewed standards of success in this industry, this group would not be receiving invitations to the Chairman's Council, etc. For my "Not Winners" group, I pulled from my survey FAs who have been in business at least 10 years and have $50 million or less in AUM.
Firm Type Matters
If you would manage $200 million or more, you most likely hit your goal if you are in a national or regional wirehouse.
Lately, I've even seen a few independents reading the same tea leaves and moving from independent to wirehouse.
Now, keep in mind that "best practices" is a recipe. No one ingredient will take you to the winner's circle.
Team Structure Matters
Odds are 80-20 in your favor of making it to the winner's circle if you are a partnership.
I hate to say, "I told you so," but I've been telling you so since 1989 when I became the first to recognize the seminal role of partnerships in business development. I have posted an updated version of all my Research magazine articles on partnerships at www.billgood.com/surefire. There you will also find many other team building resources.
The "Other" category for each was very interesting.
For the Winners, all of the "other" choices are different kinds of teams ranging from four partners, to lead broker with two registered associates, to a bank trust company department, to a one-owner, multi-advisor team.
For the Not Winners, the "other" responses were mostly variations on a single-advisor practice such as a producing manager, or "me and licensed assistant with own smaller book."
A Large Clientele Matters
Hardly the day goes by that I don't hear that advisors should limit the size of their books. The usual number is 100 families.
The reality is: size matters.
Little advisors tend to have a small client base.
Consider: 14 percent of Winners have fewer than 100 families; 39 percent of our Not Winners have fewer than 100 clients.
On the flip side of it, 51 percent of the big boys and girls have 300 clients or more while only 15.9 percent of the little folk have a big book. Never stop prospecting!
Prospecting Matters
Number of families and prospecting obviously go hand-in-glove.
There is a lot more prospecting going on among Winners than their smaller counterparts. You would think, because of the smaller number of clients, they would have more time to prospect. But as you will see, the Winners have a team to do a lot of the work.
A Support Team Matters
This chart tells it all: The big guys have help; the little guys don't.
"But wait!" you say. "The big guys can afford it" — to which my answer is: The Winners got big because they built a team. The chicken comes first.
Bill Good is chairman of Bill Good Marketing. His Gorilla CRM System helps advisors double their production or work half as much; visit www.billgood.com. His seminar program, "No More Pies," helps advisors manage ETF portfolios using technical analysis; see www.nomorepies.net. And his blog, financialadvisorsmarketing.net, has lots of useful information for advisors who need to beef up marketing. To preview Bill as a speaker, see his YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/BillGoodSpeaker.


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Artist duo Ubermorgen are participating in the International Teletext Art Festival, which was recently profiled here on Rhizome. The following interview by Raffaela Kolb with Hans Bernhard of Ubermorgen was originally conducted for RCKSTR Magazine—viewable here—and has been translated and reprinted with permission.
UBERMORGEN, My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic (2013), Youtube comments translated to teletext, 24 text rows of 40 characters each.
RK: How did you and your partner get invited to the ITAF 2013?
UM: I have no idea. Somewhere, somehow, sometime, a person unknown to me, from Finland I believe, sent an email to one of the hundreds of UBERMORGEN email addresses. I also did not read the email, but just saw the words teletext, Finland, Switzerland (SRF), Austria (ORF), Germany (ARD) and art, and intuitively replied with "YES WE CAN"... It wasn't until much later that I read about all the bans: no pornography (although that is the best part of teletext), no advertising (shit! that would be the second best) and they can censor everything, if it doesn't suit them, i.e the organizers. Shit! I thought to myself, but then it was already too late... I then pinged my friend, Dragan Espenschied, of Bodenständig2000, who happens to be a big fan of [German synthpop duo] Modern Talking and has wanted to feature Thomas Anders with his Nora Ketterl on teletext for quite a while now... I then integrated a small reference into our piece... A fitting tribute to a great artist (DRX) and a great German band (Modern Talking).


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I tried to implement the code as described into Atahualpa, placing the Markup bit on a fresh page, and the CSS bit into CSS Inserts, but I couldn't figure out where to put the javascript bit. After trying about ten different places with no luck, I decided to see if any brilliant users could offer a suggestion
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Both Intel and Qualcomm have launched new processors at this month's Computex event in Taipei.
First up was Intel, with its new Oak Trail, Tunnel Creek and Canoe Lake processor lines.
Canoe Lake was being pushed as a platform, which can allow manufacturers to produce a dual-core netbook at a super-slim 14-millimeters thick, running Intel's Pine Trail version of its Atom processor.
New smartphone chips
Intel also showcased its Tunnel Creek 'system on a chip' Atom processor for small devices running a range of operating systems, including MeeGo, Google Android or Chrome, and Windows 7.
Asus is set to be the first manufacturer to ship a pre-installed version of Intel's netbook app store, called the Asus AppStore, later this year.
Qualcomm's next gen Snapdragon chip for smartphones was also announced at Computex this week, which is a low-power 1.2GHz dual-core chip capable of handling 1080p video.
No word on release dates from Qualcomm, but TechRadar will be watching out for more news on the new Snapdragons, which we expect to see arriving in new Android, Palm, and Microsoft Windows 7 phones soon.
Via Fastcompany.com and Venturebeat.com


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How is meditation related to yoga?
Rodney: All forms of yoga are beginning stages of meditation. Even in deep meditation, there's always going to be some input, some micro-movement in the body. Meditation is observing what's going on — both internally and externally — without necessarily reacting to it. When we do the postures, we are concentrating the mind within the body. I might tell you to spread your toes, or to press your legs into the earth. All of that is a form of meditation — you're concentrating and focusing the mind on a subject, which in this case happens to be the body. That's the first stage of meditation.
You've hosted a series of meditation programs that use a sequence of yoga postures. How do these poses facilitate meditation?
We use yoga postures to go inward. The relaxation poses help the mind, the body and the nervous system to rest. All of these yoga postures aid in meditation because when the mind relaxes and begins to get quiet, it becomes able to focus on the subtle movements inside the body. A lot of people say, "When I sit down to meditate I can't still my mind; my mind is all over the place." And this is exactly why we do these postures first — because they settle the body; they settle the mind.
|Yoga to Meditation
Meditation is a silent way of looking at resistance; it's not necessarily silent inside, but basically you're sitting with the resistance. You're not running away from it — you're sitting with it, you're stewing in it, you're fidgeting with it, but basically you're trying to follow the resistance. And I think that's very interesting. You might have your own little conversation inside your head about it, like, "There I go again, I'm thinking about what I did yesterday, and I'm supposed to be just sitting here and watching my breath." You have your own little conversations in your head, but after a while in meditation you are bringing yourself back to now.
And if you feel resistance, feel the resistance. It doesn't mean you have to go anywhere with it. It's not necessarily something you have to figure out. But if the resistance is rising inside you, you really have no choice but to be with it, in some sense, until it resolves or dissolves in its own right. And sometimes you have nothing to do with it resolving or dissolving. But to live it, to be in it, is a profound thing.
Why is the breath so important in meditation?
I am moving more toward meditation in my own practice, but I've also done pranayama (breath absorption) for many years, and I love it. I go to a place in my psyche and in my body that I'm not really allowed to go any other time during the day. And I mean that not just as a personal thing but as a societal thing. People don't allow you to sit and watch your breath. You have to do that on your own time. I can't tell you how wonderful it is to be that intimate with your breath and to be that intimate with your mind, to just be there, watching your mind move.
The breath itself, as the yogis have said for thousands of years, is the ruler of the mind and body. If you control the breath, in some sense you also control the state of the mind and the chemistry of the body. By making the breath smooth and easy, you create a quiet, easy mind. Breath is what stills and quiets the mind so that meditation can take place, and relaxation is a fundamental aspect of breath.
My friend Ian, a classical musician, sometimes doesn't want to play concerts and have a healthy life tomorrow with taichi, yoga, meditation and alternative medicine. He doesn't want to have to produce music. He wants to be with the music. I want to be with my breath, as a yogi. I want to watch it and watch it so deeply that I am it. I am my breath. I am my mind. I'm not trying to do something with my mind. I'm not trying to produce something with these postures or with this body. I'm not trying to get healthy life, I'm not trying to get unhealthy. Everybody pushes you in this life: "Why are you doing that? What are you doing that for? What's that going to lead to?" I'm not trying to do something with this. I'm doing it because I love to do it and I am doing it.
When is the best time of day to practice meditation?
I find morning to be the best time of day, but many people can benefit from it at the end of the day as well. Morning is the time when you are the most quiet and the air is most pure. Taking time for this practice in the morning sends you out of the door feeling centered, present and relaxed. Everything you do is going to be enhanced by that. At the same time, at the end of the day, you're often tired. You know you need rest, and you're ready to place your body in positions that are good for it, that will remove the stresses of the day. To go from yoga postures into breath work and meditation is the perfect segue to a peaceful, restful night.


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If you're in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, well then consider us jealous. (While you're there, here are some eating tips.) But if you're like the rest of us who can't make it, here's a list of appropriately fattening foods for Fat Tuesday.
From muffalettas to po' boys, we've compiled a list of New Orleans inspired foods for all of your Mardi Gras feasting.
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- Oysters Rockefeller
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- Grilled Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya
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- Turkey Neck Gumbo
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- Fried Pickles with Spicy Remoulade
- Cajun Chicken Wings
- Cajun Spiced Barbecue Ribs
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